The opening scene of "The Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson is a powerful and harrowing depiction of a catastrophic heatwave in India - where temperatures specifically reach critical …
The State of the Space Industrial Base
Along with the two other baseline strategic documents we have featured here - Space Force's Inaugural U.S. Commercial Space Strategy and DoD’s Commercial Space Integration Strategy - the State of the …
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Social Engineering Remains the Coin of the Realm for Ransomware Gangs (or APTs- Advanced Persistent Threats)
We have been on the social engineering (aka Human Risk Management or Human Engineering beat for a while - providing resources to our readership and the OODA Network regularly. Those resources are …
Quantum Day (aka “Q-Day”) is a Gray Rhino Stridently Galloping Straight at Your Organization
"Q-Day" is a scenario where "no more secrets" becomes a reality, as previously secure communications and data could be vulnerable to decryption by entities wielding quantum computational power (also …
Widespread European Farmer Protests, Some Violent, are Another Dispatch from The Ministry for the Future
In this, the fifth installment in our "Dispatches from the Ministry for the Future" series, we take the time to do more of a deep dive into the speculative fiction/science fiction novel that inspired …
The Interim Report of the U.S. National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology
The U.S. National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology publicly released its first report in January of this year - with ideas and recommendations "they will be advancing throughout …
Microsoft and OpenAI Issue a Stark Report and a $10M Bounty from the State Department
Competing cyber capabilities (on a spectrum from nation-state to non-state actors alike) and cyber-based conflict will continue to restructure, reformulate, and transform the very essence of what …
Globalization Transformed: Where Should Your Organization “Nearshore” and/or “Friendshore”?
Various perspectives - on Latin American nearshoring and Indo-Pacific "friendshoring" with allied nations in an effort to secure and shorten global supply chains - as well as the emergence of "China …
OODAcon 2024
The annual OODAcon event brings together the hackers, thinkers, strategists, disruptors, leaders, technologists, and creators with one foot in the future to discuss the most pressing issues of the day …
2023 Year-end Review: Cybersecurity
Once again, 2023 was marked by security professionals reacting to threats, incidents, and vulnerabilities of a constant, unrelenting frequency, volume, and scale. Crypto continued its"desctruction …